The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1887-06-17
Mr.. Oarlisle's Responsibility.

If rumors may be half believed, says the
\ Y. star, the plan of the protectionsts is TO
make their campaign in the next Congress con-
template a reduction of the surplus by attack
ing sugar and the internal revenue tax. In the
Senate, where the Republicans have MAORI
w. and where such a leader as John Sherman
has announced his purpose to assail the sugar
tariff, the field lies .fallow for this movement.
The Senate may safely be counted Oh. And
in the House, where the Republicans can Sc
curey anticipate the cordial cooperation OF
Mr.. Samuel J. Randall and the thirty rene
dade Democrats who follow him, the chances
are that such plan, offered as an utimatnm,
may be accepted under prot ST as better than
nothing. With free sugar, the receipts OF the
government would be cut down about sixty
millions per annum, and if, in addition to
this, the internal revenue taxes could be re-
duced to the extent of some fifty millions
more, the question of the surplus would be
settled, at least for the immediate present.
1t is to be remembered however, that this
scheme cannot become possible so far as the
House is concerned, except throu III the co OPP
Grafton of Mr. Carlisle. Unless Mr.. Carlisle
shall, in his capacity as Speaker, see tit to
make Mr. Randall chairman of the appropria-
tions committee, or to give TO his following
formidable representation in that body, or i'll
that of the ways and means, the insignificant
faction OF which Mr.. Randall is the head will
not have the power either to bring in an anti
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unfair employment of their advantages, gem
uine party measure formulated by others. We
might well not attempt TO disguise the fact
that Mr.. Randall is regarded by fully nine
tenths of the Democrats in the country as
traitor within the camp--as man who is
kept i'll Congress by Republicans simply, be-
cause he answers their purposes better than
an avowed Republican would. Nor is it worth
while TO deny that Democratic sentiment dis
approves the course of Mr.. Carlisle, though it
may forgive his motive, in continuing Mr..
Randall i'll 4 position in which he can achieve
the Republican purpose expressed in his pres
ence in Congress. Thus it is fully understood
that if in the next Congress Mr.. Randall finds
himrelf able to embarrass Democratic policy
to the extent Of confronting the party With
the alternative specified above, the fault will
lie with Democratic leaders after all, and cs-
pecially with Mr.. Carlisle.
What this country needs and What Is rap
idly becoming Indispensable to its prosperity,
is not only measure that will effectually ar
rest the accumulation of prodigious surplus
in the Treasury, but that will at the sarle
time remove the taxes on industry and on the
poor mans everyday necessities OF life. That
constlmmation will not be effected by ing
sugar free and by reducing the tax on whisky
and tobacco. Mr.. Randall and his Republi-
can allies know this as well as We do. But
they are opposed to free clothing, free fuel,
free tools and free food, and they hope, by
forcing a reduction on such luxures as sugar,
liquor and tobacco, to fasten forever on the
workingmen the war prices he now pays on
the things without which he cannot live.
The question is whether the Democratic
party, acting through Mr.. Carlisle in Congress,
will smooth the way for this conspiracy.